Harman, with Lanny Davis, seem to want to portray the matter as a partisan foodfight

Foreign Policy has the latest on the Jane Harman case. A little inside-baseball even for this scorecard-keeper.
But a couple points: Harman's former Intelligence aide, Jeremy Bash, is now working as chief of staff for Leon Panetta at the CIA. (Bash is a rabbi's son. Does this get my Israel lobby mojo working? Yes, Virginia.)
Also, Harman has hired Lanny Davis, the Clintonite, to be her attorney. She is pushing back hard and, Foreign Policy suggests, trying to make the whole thing into some intramural partisan conflict in which Porter Goss, the former Republican congressman and CIA head, was getting political retribution.
This is how the lobby operates: trivializes a conflict of principle, in this case the issue of dual loyalty, into a partisan foodfight, so that people will shut off the matter.
Davis is an Israel lobbyist who supported the Gaza slaughter, in Huffpo of course. He has worked for the Israel Project, which basically argues that Israel is a thriving democracy where Arabs win beauty contests and gays can get married; and don't look at second-class citizenship, let alone the occupation. Help me, I'm surrounded.